Haltwhistle

Haltwhistle is a market town in , along the route between Newcastle and Carlisle, with a population of 4650 in 2021. It contrived to be named for a railway halt over 600 years before that railway arrived: Hautwysel means a hill between two forks of a river. is the main reason to visit, the Roman frontier defence built in 122 AD.
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  • Type: Town with 3,790 residents
  • Description: town in Northumberland, England
  • Also known as: “Haltwhistle, Northumberland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hadrian’s Wall and Bellister Castle.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hadrian's Wall was built by the Roman Empire to protect their territory in England from the Pictish tribes of Scotland. It was built relatively quickly from 122 AD, with associated castles and forts, and stretches for 73 miles from the Tyne estuary on the east coast to Solway Firth on the west coast.

Castle
Photo: Anthony Parkes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a National Trust owned castellated 19th-century mansion house attached to the ruinous remains of a 14th-century tower house, near Haltwhistle, , .

Railway station
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.
Haltwhistle is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated 22 miles 66 chains east of Carlisle, serves the market town of Haltwhistle in , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Plenmeller and Henshaw.

Locality
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of with Whitfield, in , England about a mile southeast of Haltwhistle. In 1951 the parish had a population of 107.

Hamlet
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is a small village and civil parish in , within the vicinity of the ancient . It is located around 11.5 miles from , 25.5 miles from , and 33 miles from . is situated 3½ miles east of Haltwhistle.

Hamlet
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is a village in , England. It lies on the Military Road. A motorist arriving over the B6318 from the east will see the place name shield "Once Brewed", while those coming from the west will read "Twice Brewed". is situated 3½ miles northeast of Haltwhistle.

Haltwhistle

Latitude
54.9705° or 54° 58′ 14″ north
Longitude
-2.4582° or 2° 27′ 30″ west
Population
3,790
Elevation
407 feet (124 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HWS
Open location code
9C6VXGCR+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20967406
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647593
Wiki­data ID
Q748591
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Haltwhistle” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Haltwhistle”
  • Basque: “Haltwhistle”
  • Cebuano: “Haltwhistle (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Haltwhistle”
  • Chinese: “Haltwhistle”
  • Chinese: “霍特惠斯尔”
  • Chinese: “霍特惠斯爾”
  • Czech: “Haltwhistle”
  • Dutch: “Haltwhistle”
  • Esperanto: “Haltwhistle”
  • French: “Haltwhistle”
  • German: “Haltwhistle”
  • Irish: “Haltwhistle”
  • Italian: “Haltwhistle”
  • Japanese: “ハルトホイッスル”
  • Ladin: “Haltwhistle”
  • Lithuanian: “Holtvislas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Haltwhistle”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Haltwhistle”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haltwhistle”
  • Persian: “هالتویستل”
  • Polish: “Haltwhistle”
  • Portuguese: “Haltwhistle”
  • Romanian: “Haltwhistle”
  • Slovak: “Haltwhistle”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هالتویستل”
  • Swedish: “Haltwhistle”
  • Turkish: “Haltwhistle”
  • Volapük: “Haltwhistle”
  • Welsh: “Haltwhistle”
  • “Haltwhistle”

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